Yes, I rather like the fact that CUE files are plain text, so the odd small problem can be fixed manually with any text editor. However, what I was after was: - some way to work on multiple CUE files at once (ie my whole library) - to sort by various methods (artist, album etc) - to use convenient windows 'control-click' operations to select multiple tracks from numerous different CUE files - to see the results update on screen - to save the results with a single click.
Admittedly a text editor *could* do some of this, but it would take some pretty whizzy scripts/batch files to achieve the same sort of bulk editing. Using my original example, I would have to anticipate all the different forms of 'ELO' and code/search for them, whereas the WYSIWYG approach lets me browse and edit on the fly. Foobar seems to give me everything I need. I contemplated writing some kind of Excel script - reading the CUE files would be straightforward I think, but writing any edits back to the original files without touching the rest of the file seemed, shall we say, non-trivial! Why did I go for the Image+CUE approach? Good question! I'm not convinced by it, but the beauty of it is that I can always adopt a different approach later, without having to re-rip. I know that my CUE files contain everything there is to know about the original CD, and allow me to recreate the original CD if ever I need to. In addition, the FLAC images contain nothing but the music. Most format converters will recognise the CUE sheets. For instance, I use the same 'Windows Explorer search/copy/paste' approach to get all my CUE files into 'Easy CD DA Extractor' so that I can batch convert my entire library into a different format - 24 hours later I've got an entire library of 'Extreme' MP3s for my iPhone, for instance, if I wish - in fact I'll be doing this again once I've tidied the tags in the CUE sheets. I agree, the same can be achieved with individual FLAC files, but I guess I just like the concept of having all the tagging info in plain text files, rather than embedded into the music files themselves. I've not encountered any problems at all relating to these image files in Squeezecenter for a long time. It understands my CUE files very well, so I can easily select individual tracks. I haven't tried FF/RW for a while, so I don't know if that works now, but I don't use it anyway. -- chill ------------------------------------------------------------------------ chill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10839 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60559 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
